Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Matthew Santoni Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 9:00 p.m. As Pittsburgh-area school districts plan their budgets for the next school year, any that have built or renovated schools in the past few years will have a big question mark: Will this be the year the state resumes reimbursing them for construction projects? Since 2012, there has been a moratorium on applications for the state’s Planning and Construction Workbook, or PlanCon, process. More than 350 school districts that applied before then await compensation for projects under construction or completed. “Our application that triggers payment is sitting on an administrator’s desk somewhere,” said Jan Klein, finance director for the Mt. Lebanon School District, which is awaiting $ 1.8 million in state reimbursement and will be owed $ 643,000 more next year. A report the state compiled in May put the estimated backlog of payments at $ 1.2 billion for 354 projects statewide, said Timothy Eller, spokesman for the Department of Education.
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